AN ANCIENT PEOPLE OF THE LIBYAN SAHARA

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 5
3. FOREWORD 7
4. PREFACE 11
5. TABLE OF CONTENTS 15
6. I. OPENING SESSION
7. QUELQUES MOTS SUR COMPARAISON ET RESTITUTION 21
8. OPENING ADDRESS 25
9. II. SEMITIC SECTION
10. ON THE COMMON SEMITIC LEXICON AND ITS ECOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND 43
11. THE EVIDENCE OF THE PROTO-LEXICON FOR THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF THE SEMITIC PEOPLES 55
12. BEITRÄGE ZUR HAMITO-SEMITISCHEN WORTVERGLEICHUNG 63
13. A HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE HEBREW ROOT YŠ 75
14. LEXICOSTATISTICS AND THE INTERNAL DIVISIONS OF SEMITIC 85
15. GENETIC CLASSIFICATION AND ETHIOPIAN SEMITIC 103
16. WHAT IS A SEMITIC ETHIOPIAN LANGUAGE? 129
17. ON ROOT STRUCTURE IN PROTO-SEMITIC 133
18. CONTRASTING ARTICULATIONS IN THE MODERN SOUTH ARABIAN LANGUAGES 155
19. LE DYNAMISME DU SYSTÈME PHONOLOGIQUE PROTOSÉMITIQUE ET LES PROBLÈMES DE LA PHONOLOGIE CHAMITO-SÉMITIQUE 161
20. III. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SECTION
21. EGYPTIAN AND SURVIVAL 171
22. LA POSITION INTERMÉDIAIRE DE L’ANCIEN ÉGYPTIEN ENTRE L’HÉBREU ET L’ARABE 193
23. EGYPTIAN AND THE OTHER HAMITO-SEMITIC LANGUAGES 201
24. IV. LIBYCO–BERBER SECTION
25. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PROTO-BERBER SHORT VOWELS 215
26. HAMITO–SEMITIC AND THE PRE–CELTIC SUBSTRATUM IN IRELAND AND BRITAIN 233
27. AN ANCIENT PEOPLE OF THE LIBYAN SAHARA 249
28. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE LIBYAN ALPHABET FROM TRIPOLITANIA, AND SOME NOTES ON THE TRIBES OF THE REGION 267
29. SEMANTIC CORRELATES OF BERBER SYNTACTIC PATTERNS 291
30. THE BERBER ELEMENT IN MALTESE 297
31. BEGADKEFAT IM BERBERISCHEN 315
32. V. CUSHITIC SECTION
33. MATERIAL FOR A COMPARATIVE DICTIONARY OF CUSHITIC LANGUAGES : SOMALI-GALLA COMPARISONS 321
34. GENDER IN CUSHITIC 333
35. VERBS WITH VOCALIC MUTATION IN SOMALI AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR HAMITO-SEMITIC COMPARATIVE STUDIES 361
36. TOWARD A LEXICOSTATISTIC CLASSIFICATION OF ETHIOPIAN LANGUAGES 377
37. VI. CHADIC SECTION
38. THE HAUSA GENITIVE MORPHEME AS AN EXPONENT OF GENDER: A QUERY 389
39. TYPES OF CONJUGATIONAL FORMS IN CHADIC 399
40. THE STRUCTURAL STATUS OF HAUSA R SOUNDS 415
41. HAUSA AND CHADIC 421
42. BACHAMA AND CHADIC 459
43. VII. GENERAL PAPERS
44. WHAT’S IN A NAME? 471
45. SOME ASPECTS OF THE PRESENT STATE OF HAMITO-SEMITIC STUDIES 479
46. VIII. PREHISTORIC BACKGROUND
47. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF THE HAMITIC LANGUAGES IN NORTHERN AFRICA 495
48. PARTICIPANTS AT THE COLLOQUIM 517